Eyewitness News is tracking crime and safety across New York City and in your neighborhood.

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Homicides
321

Year To Date
Through September 25

Average Homicides
364

Year To Date
Same Period in 2021

Homicide Rate
5.1

Per 100,000 people
Last 12 months

Average Homicide Rate
4.8

Per 100,000 people
2019 to 2021


Homicides so far this year are trending down 11.8% compared to the same time period in 2021.

However, the murder rate over the last 12 months is up compared to the annual average over the last three years, and the frequency of killings remains higher than it was before the pandemic.

The city is averaging 9 homicides a week over the last 12 months. In 2019, that number was 6 a week.

One way to think about the danger: three years ago, the murder rate was 3.6 per 100,000 residents. That’s only slightly higher than the risk of dying in a vehicle crash in New York City: about 2.9 per 100,000 residents in 2021.

During the pandemic, a person’s chance of being murdered in New York rose to almost twice the likelihood of dying in a vehicle crash and is only now starting to fall.


The risk is not the same neighborhood to neighborhood.

ABC7’s data team looked at the New York Police Department’s data by neighborhood from 2019 through September 25.

A closer look at homicides by neighborhood

The map color-codes each neighborhood by the homicide rate over the last 12 months. Darker blue areas are neighborhoods where the murder rate is higher than the citywide rate.

You can click any neighborhood to see detailed numbers or the buttons at the bottom of the map to switch between numbers and rates. You can search for a street, place, landmark or zip code to zoom to that location.